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The attack of the Yabuts!

Strategy Driven

1 killer of collaboration, cooperation, great ideas and innovation in organizations. They are those prickly little creatures that make noises like; “ Yabut, the banks will never back us on this one… Yabut, the market is totally unpredictable… Yabut, we’ve never done that before… ”. Consider leaving a comment!

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Creating Scalable Opportunities For Lifelong Learning

The Horizons Tracker

The same is true for universities, as the changing demands of the labor market place intense demands on universities to respond in kind, and many report that they lack the skills among their faculty to provide the education the market demands.

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7 Conferences to Grow Your Business in 2017

Steve Farber

CEO Space has evolved into an advanced cooperative networking organization. Incite Marketing Summit. Chief Marketing Officers from some of the top US and global brands provide practical as well as inspirational insights for entrepreneurs and other marketing leaders. This is a great place to incubate ideas.

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What Marketers Should Know About Personality-Based Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Communicators and marketers can now adopt a personalized approach to their work, ideally one based on behavioral science. But the execution lags behind the science while the claims of some marketers as to what personality marketing can do far exceed it. We believe that includes personality marketing.

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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies have achieved a remarkable transformation over the past 30 years. Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.